That's awesome, Cherrie. I'm not even to my "second anniversay" yet, myself, but I hope to get there .

I don't know if I ever would have quit if I didn't find running.

"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem." Emil Zatopek

That's awesome, Cherrie. I'm not even to my "second anniversay" yet, myself, but I hope to get there .

I don't know if I ever would have quit if I didn't find running.

I found running about a year after I quit smoking (I had found food instead ) have never looked back!! congrats on your soon to be second anniversary!

"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."Wisdom of Confucius

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DirtyGraceFlint

The Crap Whisperer

posted: 4/2/2013 at 10:13 AM

What an awesome accomplishment

Being the best tiny spec that I can be!

mab411

Proboscis Colossus

posted: 4/2/2013 at 2:04 PM

Outstanding, congrats!

Side note: I do not understand why, in this day and age, with all we know about it, people evidently still choose to start smoking. Is the debatable advantage of "looking cool" really an overriding factor against the clear link to disease, terrible smell, high cost, and addictiveness?

"God guides us on our journey, but careful with those feet." - David Lee Roth, of all people

Side note: I do not understand why, in this day and age, with all we know about it, people evidently still choose to start smoking. Is the debatable advantage of "looking cool" really an overriding factor against the clear link to disease, terrible smell, high cost, and addictiveness?

Start? Don't know why anyone would. Start again? Could happen to me any minute. I'm actually thinking about it right now. I won't. But I am one of the only runners I know that runs around the canal downtown and actually slows down where all the smokers gather outside so I can take in a deep breath! I haven't smoked in almost 9 years...but not a day goes by that I don't think about it!

Side note: I do not understand why, in this day and age, with all we know about it, people evidently still choose to start smoking. Is the debatable advantage of "looking cool" really an overriding factor against the clear link to disease, terrible smell, high cost, and addictiveness?

I wish I knew. My 20 year old daughter started smoking a couple years ago. She used to run cross country in high school, now she can't run to the end of the street and back.

I had my last smoke on May 13th, 1991. I was a two pack a day guy before that.